More support for those dealing with breast cancer

The HealthTalk Web site just keeps getting better and better in continuing to provide a wealth of resources for chronic illness and cancer. One more great addition to the Web site is another breast cancer blog. Suzette Lipscomb has joined the bloggers here with her take on dealing with breast cancer alone while in her 30s. The more women sharing their experience with breast cancer the better for all of us to learn, feel supported and move through the fear and effects the disease brings with it. I think that creating community is the best way to battle cancer. There is nothing a group of women united together can’t accomplish.

I love to share a story a sociology professor told of a native community in South America. The women were faced with a high incidence of domestic abuse from their husbands, and it had been tolerated for generations as part of their culture. As the threat to these women continued to mount, they began discussing it among themselves. Finally they decided on a solution; a very creative and effective one. They realized that alone they could do nothing to stop the abuse in their home, but united they could take it on. Since it was a close community in a hot climate, their habitats were seldom closed to the rest of the neighboring homes. They realized that a woman simply had to yell loudly for the others to know what was happening in her home when her husband decided to beat her. At the sound of a woman yelling, it was decided that all the women in the village would alert each other and come running to the aid of the woman and unite to restrain and stand up to the man. They felt that if they stayed united, eventually the men would back down. The sociology professor stated that studies showed that for this community domestic abuse became rare.

The first part of these women’s success was to share their experience, the second was to work together. United we can continue to battle and beat breast cancer. So take some time to visit Suzette’s blog and welcome her to the forefront of battle since we are all in this together.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN

Kathy-Ellen is a Registered Nurse living in Michigan. In 2003, Kathy-Ellen was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. She was cancer-free from April 2004 until December of 2013 when it was discovered that...read more

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